Our guide, Gelena, getting directions around the town of Korop, where the Zumsky's came from, also around 1904-05.  This scene was repeated many times over.  The locals were very eager to provide directions, but somehow, we kept not finding the house we were looking for.  Rural Urkraine does not look prosperous, like Kiev.  Streets are in poor repair, often (as here) not paved.  On the streets and in homes, many people appeared to be idle.  In the fields, a common sight was a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plow.  Horse-drawn carts were common on the roads.  Our guide told us this is a post-Soviet phenomenon, resulting from high gas prices.



Nina Borisovna, was extremely helpful.  After insisting that we accept tea and purchased sweet bread, she guided us to the Jewish cemetary.  There are no old graves standing, and even many of the recent ones have been vandalized.  Since then they have been "repaired" so they have no markings or writing on them.  Later she went to the town records office and found birth records from the 1890's that appear to be of some of David's Zumsky ancestors.